>>1261927I'm a cunt now because I've been dealing with these "Know any cool places in-" fuckers for years now. They don't get better. In fact, they get worse the more and more people start figuring out that the name used among professional trespassers is "Urban Exploration" and not "breaking into that one asylum 'cause it's cool." Treating them nicely doesn't do a damn thing. It's just leading to more and more and more of these fucking teenagers looking to be hand-fed explores.
And of course the whole "if people list them online, the places get harder to explore and get destroyed faster" isn't a thought experiment. It's real. That's why most urbexers fucking hate youtubers. The ones who are into this hobby have an annoying tendency to tell you where the location is (or at least give its real name, making it one google search away from figuring out what they're talking about. They then tend to show themselves being "hardcore" during the entry to rake in those dozens of views (which by necessity, SHOWS WHERE THE POINT OF ENTRY IS).
Without fail, within a year of a video going up, either the place gets trashed beyond recognition, or suddenly security becomes much more of a pain in the ass to get around. It's getting harder and harder to bring my friends into the fold, because the easy explores that used to be fantastic places practically unguarded have turned into tagged and vandalized hellscapes devoid of any aesthetic, with passive and/or active security to worry about.
A similar- albeit lighter- effect happens when I start finding instances of people giving out the location online. If you can google and find people talking about the place as a good explore, or if dipshits are dumb enough to go onto google for places listed as "abandoned" and talk about their fucking visits, you end up with the same sorts of problems as if someone put it up on youtube.
So yeah, I'm a cunt, but I'm being a cunt to the symptom of a disease that's killing this hobby.
